Elias Canetti Quotes About Literature
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
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People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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